1867: Reflections of a Mormon Historian - Sandra Tanner Reviews "Chosen Path"
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2024
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
In this wide-ranging interview, Sandra Tanner discusses her complex history with D. Michael Quinn, from being arch-enemies due to their clashing views on Mormon history, to gaining an appreciation for Quinn's tireless research into difficult aspects of LDS history, even as she remains puzzled by his persistent belief in Mormonism despite uncovering many factual problems. Sandra highlights Quinn's lifelong quest to reconcile his faith with the uncomfortable realities he uncovered, his struggles with Church leadership over his historical writings, the irony of him publishing an anti-Tanner pamphlet, and the sadness of his eventual excommunication which rejected both him as a person due to his sexuality and his meticulously researched historical analysis which the Church disliked. Ultimately, Sandra expresses a wish that Quinn was still alive to have an open discussion given their intertwined, conflicted past.
Chosen Path: A Memoir: Quinn, D. Michael | Amazon.com
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon stories podcast. I'm your host John |
| 0:03.8 | Delinn. It's February 13th, 2024, the day before Valentine's Day for those of you who |
| 0:10.2 | celebrate such things and we are here for part two of the two-part series on this |
| 0:16.4 | amazing book. The book is chosen path, the memoir I guess originally authored by |
| 0:21.2 | D. Michael Quinn but edited and annotated by the Barbara... |
| 0:26.5 | Only authored by D Michael Quinn and we just did a simple copy edit and then myself and three other annotators annotated the entire book. |
| 0:36.1 | Yeah, so that's Barbara Jones Brown everybody. |
| 0:38.5 | Barbara, welcome back to more stories. |
| 0:40.1 | Hi, thanks for having me back. |
| 0:41.8 | If you all haven't watched the previous episode |
| 0:44.2 | we just released with Mosha Quinn, |
| 0:46.6 | D Michael Quinn's son, and Barbara, |
| 0:49.2 | I really enjoyed it and the feedback so far |
| 0:52.3 | has been really good. So go check that out. I thought it would be |
| 0:55.4 | really fun to bring Sandra Tanner back, the Sandra Tanner. Hey Sandra. |
| 1:00.3 | Hi. Welcome back. Okay. |
| 1:03.4 | Y'all know Sandra. |
| 1:04.4 | She and her late husband, Gerald Tanner, |
| 1:07.4 | were the founders of the Utah Lighthouse Ministry, |
| 1:10.1 | is that what it was called? |
| 1:11.3 | And for decades and decades they not only sold books in |
| 1:16.4 | Salt Lake City but they did lots of important Mormon history and scholarship |
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